Parish

Quick meaning: Parish is a noun meaning (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

Meaning

(Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

More Meanings

1. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
2. In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county.
3. (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
4. (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
5. Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary–marry–merry merger English.
6. (US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: vicarate

Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in parished areas and NDOs in non-parished areas, […]

Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.

"You will take pleasure in parishing. Mother used to parish." "How do you know I like parishing?" "Your uncle said so." "Oh! did he?" "And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."

Word Forms

• parishes
• paroch
• parishing
• parished

Synonyms for parish

Depending on context, synonyms include vicarate, parishioner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include archdiocese, priesthood, church, chapel, congregation, diocese.

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